And we're back. Williamson says he gave an update about the CEO search and they received information about the library as safe space.

That's a wrap for this meeting!

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555 years ago today Erasmus was born.

You've probably heard his name before — but who was Erasmus and why does he matter?

This is the story of history's greatest educator...

The first thing to know about Erasmus is that he was born in 1469 and died in 1536.

So his life coincided with one of the most turbulent and influential periods in history: the Renaissance, the Reformation, the rise of the printing press...

And Erasmus was involved in it all.

Erasmus was born in Gouda, the Netherlands, and by the age of 14 both his parents had died.

His guardians, who couldn't be bothered to raise the child themselves, sent him to a monastery.

In 1492 he was ordained as a priest, though books interested him much more than preaching.

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In 1984, Democrats feared that Ronald Reagan's joke about bombing Russia made him unfit for the Oval Office — but Americans elected him President anyhow:
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Public confidence in media has steadily declined since the Vietnam war era.

"Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low": news.gallup.com/poll/651977/am…

The New York Times in 2016 argued that #media should not "normalize" Trump. This ushered in a resurgence of discredited tabloid practices: anonymous, uncorroborated and unhinged sources.

"Donald Trump: The Most Horrible Person in History": fayobserver.com/story/opinion/…

It's becoming increasingly clear that the greatest danger of a Trump election victory on January 5th may not be Trump…….

.....it’s that JD Vance will be Vice President to a guy who is almost 80 years old, who is obese, and who doesn’t believe in exercise

This interview with Tapper displays Vance’s dishonesty, bad faith, and his considerable gaslighting skill.

This interview displays how difficult it is to have a rational, logical, internally consistent conversation with someone who as intelligent, and as skilled in gaslighting as Vance.

In this interview, Vance obscures and distracts from the focus on Trump’s personality disorders and lack of character by dismissively framing the people warning about Trump as being war-lusting "disgruntled" employees who are only speaking out because they have "an axe to grind".

Tapper:
4 star Marine Corp General/DHS secretary/Chief of Staff John Kelly’s,
4 star Marine Corp General/Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis;
3 star General/National Security Adviser H.R McMaster
Trump appointed Chairman of Joint Chief of Staffs Mark Milley;
Vice President Mike Pence;
John Bolton
Secretary of Defense John Esper

Vance: “Are you going to listen to every Trump administration official?”

One of the manipulative tactics of gaslighting manipulators is to frame the other party to the argument as being at fault, or ridiculous, for bringing up serious issues and/or egregious behaviors.

Here, for example, Vance implies that the problem isn’t that an unprecedented number of highly accomplished people are warning about Trump’s psychological unfitness…..it’s that:

1) Tapper is *ridiculous* because he is listing/listening to “every Trump administration official”

…and….

2) ….all of these unprecedented warnings from highly accomplished officials about Trump being psychologically unfit from actually exposes a flaw in Kamala Harris: that she won’t fire anyone…..and that all of these people are disgruntled because Trump fired them. Basically, Vance is saying that all of these people warning about Trump's unfitness is a sign of Trump's leadership, as evidenced by his propensity to fire people.

Not only is Vance gaslighting with his pivot away from their warnings, but he’s lying. When Tapper goes down the list pointing out that Trump actually did not fire them....which undermines Vance’s entire argument…..Vance doubles down on his false narrative/lies:
“He fired a lot of those people, Jake, and he did so because they weren’t doing their job.”

Vance then

Vance tries to gaslight and distract from John Kelly’s warnings about Trump's unfitness when he claims that John Kelly’s “fundamental disagreement” with Trump is because Trump would not accede to his warmongering:
“Why does John Kelly not support Trump? It’s about policy not personality”.

Tapper rebuts Vance's gaslighting by pointing out that Kelly said he agrees with Trump on almost all policies. Tapper also points out that Kelly lost a son in Afghanistan and never stated whether he supported the wars he and his son fought in.

Vance gaslights again: “Is your argument that a person who lost a son means they can’t be wrong about public policy?.....then why bring that up”

Tapper points out that Kelly never took a public position on whether Kelly agreed with the wars.

Vance supports his gaslighting narrative/claim, not with evidence, but with "feels" and *second hand conversations* (see below) when he says: “….because I KNOW John Kelly’s worldview…and I know the people who have attacked Donald Trump the most vociferously on foreign policy they’ll say well he’s a dictator, and what they really mean is that Donald Trump won’t listen to the leadership of the military when they want Trump to start ridiculous conflicts”.

Vance is attempting to dismiss numerous extremely accomplished people’s concerns about Trump’s psychological unfitness, and frame it as “policy disagreements”.....from disgruntled fired former employees (even though most resigned).....as being from people who are driven by the inhumanity/profit of war.....and from people who oppose Trump because he is a “dove” who only wants peace and prosperity.

Remember, Trump has rooted for American suffering so he can politically/personally benefit from it (stock market, border security bill, etc.)

After sensing observing that Vance is relying on what “I know” rather than facts, empirical evidence....Tapper says:
“….you’re ascribing worldviews based on gut…there’s no evidence…”

3:30 Vance: “Based on people I’ve talked to in the Trump administration….” (second hand conversations)

Tapper: “Kelly was at DHS and chief of staff, he was not weighing in…[on the wars]”

Question:

When Vance called Trump Hitler, and "cultural heroin"…..was it because Vance opposed Trump’s peace and prosperity-driven public/foreign policy?

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Tapper quoting Vance: “I guarantee John Kelly talked with Harris's campaign….People close to Kelly and the Harris campaign”.

When Tapper reports that both sides denied speaking to each other.
Vance says, “Oh, I’m highly skeptical of that, Jake…..you know the way these attacks work. You know the way these people are often vetted….”

Tapper: “…so you made it up?

Vance: “No (but Vance’s tone when denying he made it up suggests otherwise)… I said the American media and Dem party apparatus works a certain way, if it comes out that John Kelly never ever spoke with [the Harris campaign]….then I’m happy too…”

Tapper: “I’m telling you that.”

Vance: "You’re telling me that based on second hand conversation with John Kelly…..and it’s interesting, we’ve now spent three minutes talking about John Kelly…..if it is true that he never spoke with anyone in Kamala Harris’ orbit I’m happy to apologize to John Kelly for mis-stating how he delivered this news to the Atlantic Magazine…”

….and then Vance uses the choice of who Kelly spoke to as a means of delegitimizing Kelly's warnings:

“Jeffrey Goldberg who lied the U.S. into the Iraq war, which led to the deaths of millions of innocent Arabs and thousands of innocent Americans…..you don’t go to that guy if you don’t have a particular ideological motive. I think that’s what’s going on, if I’m wrong, I’m happy to say I’m wrong.”

Vance speculates and accuses people of motives that he, “thinks”, what he “knows”, etc.

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Vance, once again tries to shift the focus from Trump’s unfitness, to Tapper for asking the questions about it:
“But, this is the thing, Jake, we’ve now spent 5 minutes talking about people in Donald Trump’s staff……”

Tapper: “….who think he’s unfit for office…”

Vance: “….who he fired……oh, they didn’t think he was unfit for office until they had a falling out with him because he fired him….”

Vance continues to lie about

1) Mattis/Kelly/etc., being fired,…

...and...
2) about their level of concern when they agreed to work for Trump: Many of them went to work for Trump precisely BECAUSE they thought he was unfit, needed guardrails, and/or viewed it as a responsibility to the country to help Trump (and the country) have a successful/stable presidency.

Tapper attempts to talk about Trump’s literal statements/quotes about threatening to use the military against Americans.

Vance pathetically claims that Tapper is stating what Trump “allegedly said”, and tries to cling to the defense that Trump never actually said the words, “American citizens”.
This is another gaslighting technique by Vance who wants to get hung up on semantics, and defends Trump saying he would use the military against American citizens.

Vance: “He did not say he would send the military after the American people! Show me the quote where he said that…..He said far Left wing lunatics. He’s talking about people rioting after the election……people who burned down American cities in the summer of 2020…..yes, we should have a federal law enforcement response.”

Tapper points out the Trump said he wants to use the military against the “enemy within”, and that Trump has described the Left, Pelosi, Schiff, etc. as “the enemy within”.
Vance then tries to obfuscate, but then says he agrees with Trump that the military should be used to go after people who riot and burn down cities.

Some thoughts….

1) Virtually all of the people Vance mentioned are “American people/citizens”, so Vance intentionally argued and denied the obvious meanings of Trump’s statements to create conversational/interview chaos….....before finally agreeing with what Trump said.

2) “Left wing lunatics” is subjective. And in Trump’s pathological mind, anyone who opposes or attempts to hold him accountable is a “lunatic”.
How would a Democratic president define “Right Wing lunatics”? How would MAGA react to Harris using the military against MAGA rioters? We already know the answer to that question because MAGA has lionized the January 6th convicts as “political prisoners”.

3) Vance seemingly misspeaks about using the military against “people rioting after the election”, because he does not repeat that when he reiterates people who riot and burn down cities should have the military used against them. Imagine victimhood/martyrdom narratives that the Right would lose their mind over if Biden/Harris used the military on MAGA protestors. The Right is still incensed over the manner with which the Capitol Police defended the Capitol.

@JDVance…..the same pathetic, dishonest, gaslighting coward who relies on what he “thinks”/“knows” when making unsubstantiated “gut” accusations against the Generals/cabinet members speaking out against Trump “based on people [Vance] talked to in the Trump administration” ….

.....suddenly has a problem with an “anonymously sourced story”….meaning unsubstantiated….and “second hand conversations with John Kelly”.

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The racial slurs at Trumps rally in Madison Square Garden could cost him the election. Why?

First, even if it just moves Pennsylvania marginally its game over and it’s likely to move Latino’s and Republicans there.

Puerto Ricans are the largest Latino plurality in PA and

Harris is doing best in PA with Latinos of all the swing states.

PA had huge Latino rightward shifts in 2020 & 2022 meaning there was a lot of Democratic crossovers to Republicans. That existing registration history suggests they can also be brought back.

450K Puerto Rican voters in PA (33,500 in Allentown alone)

Just a few points return of these voters could be a disaster for Trump and Bad Bunny, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Residente and Geraldo Rivera weighing in can move 1-3 points.

Moreover…

I said a few weeks ago, that the powers that be would make decisions NOT to replace the infrastructure in certain areas of WNC.
This is a common land grab activity.
The state will confiscate the land after the owners abandon their homesites due to the unavailability of 1/

https://twitter.com/Mashburn4NC/status/1851033079697006920

utilities.
Generational homesites will be lost to the state who will work with developers to reimagine the look of the mountains.
Tonight on WRAL, they said 500 customers are still without power in WNC.
They have already discounted the areas from North Asheville to Boone 2/

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@JohnFetterman @AdamKinzinger @Scranton_Mayor @KamalaHarris BREAKING NEWS.

Vaccines create PRECIPITINS in the blood of patients that BLOCK blood flow and INJURE/KILL.

Which means? KAMALA KILLED a 100,000+ Americans with her COVID vaccine mandate.

@JohnFetterman @AdamKinzinger @Scranton_Mayor @KamalaHarris The PREP ACT provides you with vaccine activity legal immunity. However, it also includes a major exception. If you are involved in "willful misconduct" by acts of OMISSION OR COMMISSION, your "vaccine legal immunity will be negated

@JohnFetterman @AdamKinzinger @Scranton_Mayor @KamalaHarris So, blocking me or muting me? Is a COVER UP of the most massive mistake in medical history and that act will constitute willful misconduct (obviously) and your organization can then be sued directly by patients harmed by the vaccine.

IMO, people should learn how to separate their judgements about fashion from other things. 🧵

https://twitter.com/AaronLionheart8/status/1851033224123986196

Our judgements of aesthetics can be affected by many things. Fashion brands and marketers know this, which is why they present clothes on models staged in settings like this.

If you find that photo appealing, it's not bc of the outfit. Rather, you're drawn to the visual cues surrounding the outfit: the quiet suggestion of inherited wealth; the spacious, uncluttered home; and the idea of having enough free time for your hobbies. The outfit is secondary

Day 9 in #Delphi started with testimony from Stacy Bozinovski, a forensic scientist and DNA analyst.

She tested a multitude of DNA evidence:

• Abby Williams' rape kit
• Libby German's rape kit
• Swabs from Libby’s body
• Swabs from Abby’s body
• Blood samples collected from the scene
• Swabs from the ground
• Swabs from the trees
• Clothing found at the scene
• A .40 caliber Smith & Wesson cartridge discovered at the scene

Bozinovski testified, none of the items she tested contained the DNA of Richard Allen.

Bozinovski said most of the swabs from the crime scene contained blood from Abby or Libby or a mixture of both.

The single strand of hair found in Abby's hand was determined to have come from Kelsi German, Libby German's older sister.

Bozinovski noted there was "some male" DNA found under the girls' fingernails and also from external genital swabs, but she added, there was no sufficient DNA found.

She stated the amounts detected were "very, very little." She also said the presence of male DNA likely comes from living with a man (or men) or perhaps from laundry or shared surfaces.

Bozinovski believes water from the creek made it difficult to remove any DNA from items pulled from the water.

"For DNA to be successful we need to detect 25-50 cells," she said.

Bozinovski noted some items were heavily soiled with plant material or covered in mud.

She also discussed the difference in the concentration of blood versus the concentration of touch samples.

“Trying to detect touch samples in an overwhelming amount of blood is nearly impossible," Bozinovski said.

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@WWOSTFCB @Official_STFC @SaveOurSwindon @Swindon_Live @FoolsRushInSTFC @SwindonSA How many times did Clem Morfoni state that the dentures were sold to Lee Power for a million quid? Well here is a statement by the club in October 2022 which states “In addition to this, there was also the £2.95million ‘debenture’ that arose following the decision of former owner

@WWOSTFCB @Official_STFC @SaveOurSwindon @Swindon_Live @FoolsRushInSTFC @SwindonSA Andrew Black to sell Town back in 2012, with the money secured against the club, similar to a mortgage, for almost ten years - until today.” Don’t take my word for it, have a read: swindontownfc.co.uk/news/2022/octo…

@WWOSTFCB @Official_STFC @SaveOurSwindon @Swindon_Live @FoolsRushInSTFC @SwindonSA How many days did Clem Morfoni state that he had to pay the debentures in? Less than 3 days or the club would go into administration. This is quite an interesting read: gbhlaw.co.uk/2022/10/06/gbh…